Updates

Core Player

• Added a new recommendations interface, the shelf widget, which will place a recommendations shelf directly below the player, outside of the player’s container by setting related.displayMode to shelfWidget.
• Added a new startTime configuration setting for playlist items that will instruct the player to begin playback of the media at the time specified.
• Added multiple channel support for EIA-608 Captions (CC1, CC2, CC3, CC4).

Fixes

Core Player

• Fixed an issue where a duration property with an empty string was being passed to the getPlaylist API getter.
• Fixed a bug where some casting icons would inherit the page’s button styles.
• Fixed an intermittent issue causing 'Cannot Load M3U8: 400' errors in HLS live streams.

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• In IMA, fixed an issue with SpotX not loading when requireJS is used to instantiate a player.